If sexism and a couple of major wars couldn't stop them, don't think for a minute that the Covid-19 virus could shut them out.
Almost two years after being benched by 2020's pandemic shutdowns, the four STL women who played professional baseball in the 1940s-50s will be the focus of a program at the Warrenton Public Library.
At 6 p.m. March 8, the library will host STL baseball historian Ed Wheatley as he discusses the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
The league operated for 12 seasons, 1943 to 1954, and was immortalized by the 1992 movie, "A League Of Their Own.